Science is better than sympathy, if only it is science.

Have you ever noticed that there are people who do things which are most indelicate, and yet at the same time - beautiful?

The sun was already declining and each of the trees held a premonition of night.

An acquaintance had become a lover, might become a husband, but would retain all that she had noted in the acquaintance; and love must confirm an old relation rather than reveal a new one.

English literature is a flying fish.

Sudden conversion ... is particularly attractive to the half-baked mind.

If there is on earth a house with many mansions, it is the house of words.